Re: dpkg NMU for slink
On 24 Aug 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Jason> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> >> > There is a CVS server for dpkg on va. Trouble is the people
> >> > doing nmu's do not have access to it.
> >>
> >> In fact, as the guy who started the most recent NMU spree, this
> >> is the first I've heard of it.
>
> Jason> Last time I gave someone doing NMU's access to the CVS
> Jason> server I got quite flamed, so I"ve stoped. You will have to
> Jason> talk with Ian (try debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org)
>
> Why can't you give them read-only anonymous CVS access, and request
> that they submit proper patches with ChangeLog entries? That way you
> get valid patches, but don't open the repository up to any eeh-haw
> with CVS installed who thinks he knows enough C++ to be dangerous?
All CVS on va is anon accessible, the path is something similar to
pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/dpkg
What Ian does with people submitting patches is of course up to him.
Jason
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